Older
Jennifer Hartmann
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
4.28
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 85 ratings · 485 pages · Published: 03 Apr 2024

Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars.
A chance encounter. An unspoken connection.
I was smitten; he was curious.
But, as everyone knew, fate could be decidedly cruel.
He called me Halley, like the comet.
I called him Reed.
And my best friend?
Well…she called him Dad.
Older is a forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance standalone, ending in an HEA.
Tagged as:
- best friend's parent 17
- age gap 16
- secret relationship 16
- angst 16
- dual pov 16
- contemporary 13
- forbidden love 12
- m-f romance 11
- new adult 10
- found family 10
- single father 9
- slow burn 8
- tortured heroine 8
- first person pov 7
- teacher/coach hero 7
- small town 5
- sweet/gentle heroine 5
- possessive hero 5
- sweet/gentle hero 5
- working class hero 5
- male pov 4
- competent heroine 4
- fighter hero 3
- high school 3
- 20th century 3
- height difference 2
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child abuse 9
- past child neglect 9
- abuse 8
- past abuse 8
- third party abuse 6
- geography
- usa 6
- illinois 6
- north america 4
- south carolina 2